Jordan Arsenault

About Me

I grew up on Prince Edward Island, Canada, taking things apart and playing with computers, trying to understand how electronics actually worked. That early fascination with technology eventually led me to Halifax, Nova Scotia, where I studied Electrical Engineering at Dalhousie University. But in my final years, I found myself pulled deeper into software, particularly the web. My first real exposure to building at scale came around the same time, working at BlackBerry. From there, I freelanced in web development for a few years before moving to Vancouver, where I joined a technology-based real estate startup as CTO.

That startup was a stepping stone. What really shaped me was the decade I spent at a Vancouver-based agriculture technology company, where I wore many hats: Full Stack Developer, Senior Technical Lead, Data Engineer, and eventually Staff Software Engineer. I built large-scale data systems that transformed messy real-world information into products that actually worked. That experience stuck with me in a way I didn't anticipate. It showed me how satisfying it is to build technology that helps people work with the natural world, not around it.

My interest in permaculture and sustainable living goes back much further. It's part of what drew me to agriculture tech in the first place. But bees came later. Once I started keeping them, they pulled together everything I already cared about: ecology, self-sufficient living, observation, and practical data-informed problem-solving. They also revealed something I couldn't ignore: beekeeping generates a lot of important data. I'm a builder at heart, and when I'm faced with a problem like that, I start building.

I created hivemunk because I needed it myself. Every feature comes from a real problem in a real bee yard. I'm building it one piece at a time, and it means the world to me that you're here.

When I'm not working on products like hivemunk or spending time in a bee yard, I'm usually travelling with my wife and dog, gardening, PC gaming with friends, snowboarding, woodworking, or learning foreign languages.